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Breaking: Prop 8 tapes to remain under seal
The Proposition 8 trial tapes will remain under seal, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The panel ruled unanimously February 2 that former Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, the federal district court judge who presided over Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now called Perry v. Brown), abused his discretion last February when he showed a clip from the videotape to a public audience he was addressing. (read more)
Online extra: LGBTs protest prayer breakfast
Roughly two-dozen LGBT activists from GetEqual and other groups protested outside the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Thursday, February 2. (read more)
One year later,
Lyon-Martin still open
One year ago, in late January 2011, Lyon-Martin Health Services' board of directors shocked the city when it announced the clinic was more than $500,000 in debt and would close within days. (read more)
SFPD likely
to promote gays
Despite being known for decades as a haven for gay men, San Francisco doesn't have any out gay men ranking above sergeant on its police force. (read more)
Report: Black gays
need more than
marriage equality
A new report suggests that marriage equality alone cannot address systemic inequalities among black gay and transgender people. (read more)
Trigger bar paying off $50,000 in fines
City officials and neighbors of San Francisco's Trigger nightclub are expressing frustration with the bar's owner as he works to pay off $50,000 in fines he accumulated in 2008. (read more)
Arrest made
in 1983 murder
A man is set to be arraigned today (Thursday, February 2) in San Francisco Superior Court for allegedly killing another man in 1983. (read more)
More Arts
Dance - Betrayal
in three acts
In Onegin, a three-act ballet new to us by the gay South African choreographer John Cranko, San Francisco Ballet have a hit on their hands, a romance that belongs in an opera house. (read more)
Film - A Sundance
dozen & change
Here are a dozen films from the 28th Sundance Film Festival
crop, leading with a queer pick to click; a romantic comedy, Liberal Arts,
I screened as part of the Festival's outreach to
indie cinema.
(read more)
Out There -
We live to love &
we love us an olive
The Right to Love: An American Family, a feature-length documentary directed by filmmaker Cassie Jaye, will have its world premiere at the Castro Theatre. (read more)
Theatre -
Differing destinies
Putting it together: add a pinch of Twain, mix in some Capra, sprinkle with Sondheim. The Story of My Life doesn't hide its inspirations, though the name Stephen Sondheim is not mentioned. (read more)
Theatre -
Worldly affairs
Stirfry Theatre hasn't pulled any punches in finding the
first vehicle for its mission of showcasing Asian-American actors in shows that
have no specific Pacific leanings.
(read more)
Culture of outrage
Was the Jan. 26 episode of NBC's 30 Rock a take-down of the culture of outrage? We think not. The episode, a two-parter with the previous one, attempted to lampoon one of its stars, Tracy Morgan. (read more)
Film - Before Carol
Channing passes by
Right at the beginning of Dori Berinstein's valentine to San Francisco native Carol Channing, appropriately titled Carol Channing: Larger than Life, we see perhaps Broadway's grandest dame chatting up three lovely boys from the then (2010) newly Tony-anointed hit musical Memphis. (read more)
